Daily Links Jun 12

The graphic at the top of this article shows which party you can trust to bring down emissions. Angus ‘Fantastic’ Taylor has the job ahead of him. We could be more confident if he spoke more sense but then, he is still in a party of deniers beholden to their donors.

University looking at reducing carbon emissions from its heating, cooling systems For students sticking around campus for summer session classes, research University looking at reducing carbon emissions from its heating, cooling systems

Now, exposure to even small amounts of indirect sunlight would activate the microbes’ CO2 appetite, without a need for any source of energy or food to carry out the energy-intensive biochemical conversions.

In the end, climate policy didn’t swing the federal election, and for those on the losing side it can be tempting to play the blame game. But listening and respect are much better ways to move forward.

Industry groups say Victoria must act soon, or sand and other raw building materials will need to be imported from interstate or overseas, dramatically raising construction costs for infrastructure projects.

Sydney residents’ efforts to sort their household trash have been hampered by inadequate waste storage facilities at new apartment blocks because developers have not complied with approval conditions, an audit report found.

Mining lobbyists and environmentalists say a go-ahead for Adani tomorrow would be monumental for the Galilee Basin, possibly paving the way for six other mines in the region but analysts say some projects may not be viable.

It is “absolutely essential” for general counsel, and lawyers within the team, to adopt a sustainable approach in managing a business’s interests, thereby ensuring greater environmental awareness, argues one GC.

A comprehensive catalog of earthquake sequences in Texas’s Fort Worth Basin, from 2008 to 2018, provides a closer look at how wastewater disposal from oil and gas exploration has changed the seismic landscape in the basin.